Rate Professor Charles Van Loan

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1973; B.S. in Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University, 1969.

Research Interests: Numerical linear algebra, matrix computations, and scientific computing.

Appointments: Emeritus Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University; Former Chair, Department of Computer Science.

Awards: SIAM John von Neumann Lecturer (2010); Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Publications:

• Matrix Computations (with Gene Golub, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).
• Over 100 articles in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Linear Algebra and Its Applications.

Additional Contributions: Developed widely-used numerical algorithms; mentors Ph.D. students in applied mathematics.